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Here: 
"Slave rights to freedom

Islamic law allows slaves to get their freedom under certain circumstances. It divides slaves with the right to freedom into various classes:

The mukatab: a slave who has the contractual right to buy their freedom over time
The mudabbar: a slave who will be freed when their owner dies (this might not happen if the owner's estate was too small)
The umm walid, a female slave who had borne her owner a child" from http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml [/quote]

What a liar you are.  The source you posted says nothing about concubines becoming free women if they got pregnant.  Quite on the contrary, this is what the source YOU POSTED says:

Concubinage was not unique to Islam; the Bible records that King Solomon and King David both had concubines, and it is recorded in other cultures too.

Being a concubine did have some benefits:[b] if a slave woman gave birth to her owner's child, her status improved dramatically - she could not be sold or given away, and when her owner died she became free. [/b]The child was also free and would inherit from their father as any other children.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml#h7[/quote]

So what? Show me whole societies of people who still live this way today.[/quote]
The argument wasn't that there are whole societies of people who still live this way today. The claim was that Islam requires that a pregnant concubine is freed. I have conclusively showed that it was false as the requirement was that she be freed only after her owner's death, and not upon pregnancy, as the poster claimed.[/quote]

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